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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883

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THARSTON is a parish and a pleasant village about 1 mile N.E. of Forncett station, 10 miles S. by W. of Norwich, and 1 mile W. of Long Stratton, in Depwade union, hundred, and petty sessional division, Harleston county court district, Ipswich bankruptcy district, Stratton polling district of South Norfolk, Depwade rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 375 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1582 acres, and has a rateable value of £2682.

The soil belongs to many proprietors, the largest of whom are Sir Charles Harvey, William B. Ringer, Robert John Fitch, and Robert Fitch, Esqs., and the former of whom is lord of the manor, in which the fines are certain. The Hall, a large Elizabethan mansion of brick, is the seat of Mr. William Gowing.

In the Oak-field, which belongs to William Ringer, Esq., stands an extraordinary oak tree, supposed to be at least 500 years old. Though of the pollard kind its boughs cover a space of 90 yards in circumference. At a foot from the base its trunk is 26 feet, and at five feet high 24 feet in circumference. At six feet from the ground it is divided into two great trunks, which, four feet higher, diverge into five grand divisions, each about the size of an ordinary tree.

The CHURCH (Virgin Mary) comprises nave, chancel, and lofty square tower with four bells. In the churchyard is a mausoleum, erected in 1855 by the late General Sir Robert John Harvey, C.B., who was buried beneath it in 1860. The chancel was restored some years ago by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the nave has recently been newly-roofed and reseated, &c., through the exertions of the present vicar.

The vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £5 1s. 8d., is in the patronage of the Bishop of Norwich, and incumbency of the Rev. S. Cutler Hooley, who has a good residence, built in 1846, and enlarged in 1876. The tithes were commuted in 1838 - the rectorial for £460, and the vicarial for £120 a year. The gross income of the living, augmented by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, is £297.

The SCHOOL is attended by about 60 children.

The rent of 2 acres of old Poor's Land (£3) is distributed in bread. The Poor's Allotment, 8A. 29P., awarded at the enclosure in 1802, is let for £25, which is distributed in coal. For distributions of bread, the poor have also the dividends of £173 7s. 10d., new 3½ per cents., purchased with £200, left by Thomas Clabburn in 1815, and of £100 3½ per cents., left by Sir R.J. Harvey, Kt., in 1860; also £200 consols, the interest of which is distributed yearly in clothing to six men and women.

POST. Letters, delivery at 8 a.m., despatch 6 p.m., viâ Long Stratton, which is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office.

         Abbs           Mrs Louisa        farmer
         Bassingthwaite Jas.              frmr. & drillman
         Beckett        Miss Rachel       farmer
         Blinch         Miss Mary Anne    schlmistress
         Bright         Mrs Eliza         farmer
         Cannel         Isaac             farmer
         Christian      Mr Frank
         Clamp          Henry, sen.       farmer
         Clamp          Henry, jun.       wheelwright and carpenter
         Clarke         Robert            farmer
         Duffield       William Gallant   farmer and lime burner
         Elliot         Miss Hannah       farmer
         Everett        George            farmer
         Foulger        Jno.              bricklayer & shopkeeper
         Fuller         Charles           farmer
         Gowing         Frederick         farmer
         Gowing         Wm.               farmer, Tharston Hall
         Hooley         Rev. Sml. Cutler  The Vicarage
         King           Robert            dealer and victualler,
                                            The Chequers
         Lloyd          Henry             machinist
         Lloyd          Robert            farmer
         Matthews       Robt.             farmer & victualler,
                                            Queen's Head
         Minister       John              farmer
         Phillipo       Alfd.             farmer, miller & mercht
         Pitcher        James             farmer
         Seaman         John              farmer
         Smith          Charles           blacksmith
         Smith          Wm.               drillman and shopkeeper
         Wright         Thomas            carpenter & shopkpr
 

See also the Tharston parish page.

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September 2015